Theme 02
Clean infrastructure siting
Where can large loads and industrial facilities obtain reliable low-carbon energy at a workable cost?
Projects in this area
Plant-level optimization
Large-Scale Spatial Optimization for Industrial Decarbonization
A 548-plant optimization shows that deployment depends on hybrid electricity supply, cross-sector coordination, regional sequencing, and carbon pricing.
2050 SCENARIOS
Offshore wind capacity
BASE213GW
MOSW250GW
AOSW1,000GW
Coastal electricity flow
Import 813 TWh
→
Export 88 TWh
Offshore wind beyond carbon
Provincial priorities, not national cost, decide what gets built. Offshore wind could supply 3 to 18% of China's electricity by 2050.